Eternal Trusts Is The World’s First Fiduciary Crypto Protocol


Project Summary
Eternal Trusts is the world’s first fiduciary crypto protocol for creating decentralized apps that securely administer crypto assets through collective decision-making. It replicates the traditional “purpose trust” framework with crypto technologies, making it flexible, transparent, and affordable for the end user. ET Protocol is powered by EOS.IO, one of the fastest blockchains with low transaction fees, and by Hyperledger of IBM.


The ET Protocol
Eternal Trusts is an EOS-based fiduciary crypto protocol. It allows financial service providers to build secure & fast decentralized applications that can integrate collective decision-making into asset administration.
As an open source protocol, Eternal Trusts allows traditional trustees, family offices, and estate planning institutions interested in accepting cryptocurrencies or integrating blockchain into their business processes to offer a brand new model of trusted asset administration to their clients. Eternal Trusts provides a robust and more publicly accessible set of mechanisms based on smart contracts and will cause the proliferation of a new distributed ecosystem of cutting edge fiduciary services, potentially allowing a wide range of people to attain long-term fiduciary purposes that best suit their needs.
Unlike in traditional centralized trusts, the trustee powered by ET Protocol is represented by:
·        The system of Smart contracts -- blockchain algorithms that work as real world paper contracts but do not require a centralized arbitrating party. 
·        Networks of Oracles -- groups of trusted parties selected by the dApp founders to be in control of asset administration for their clients, and rewarded for optimal decisions.
·        ET Token -- a smart contract-based medium of exchange that is used by all participants of the Protocol.
The combination of these 3 components implements so-called P​ urpose Execution Flow, ​advanced algorithm that autonomously fulfills asset administration goals.
ET Protocol provides the following built-in mechanisms:
·        A customizable dApp with an interface for onboarding clients, determining their goals, beneficiaries, trusted parties, and potential “triggers” for transactions
·        A framework for recording private and public data of the clients onto the blockchain for indefinite, secure storage
·        A system of smart contracts that establishes rules of interaction between participants
·        A wallet for accepting, trading, and storing cryptocurrencies
·        Highly configurable centralized or decentralized decision making mechanism
·        Assignment of specific roles for trusted parties that can freeze or release assets through the multisignature mechanism 
·        A reward system for optimal actions on behalf of the client
·        Vetoing transactions by clients or his/her trusted parties
·        Inherent dispute resolution mechanism
·        Asset management through tokenization
·        Anonymization of the source of funds and encryption of client’s data
Any dApp founder, be it a trustee or a bank, can attract and incentivize multiple pools of experts, organizations and AI-algorithms that can become responsible for constantly breaking down the settlors' long-term objectives into smaller parts and seeking the most reliable providers that can complete them in the most optimal way. A dApp built on the Eternal Trusts platform is unable to avoid fulfilling the undertaken obligations written into the blockchain for autonomous execution. The flexible autonomous system, called Purpose Execution Flow, initiates the voting process on preset triggers, finds the most optimal solutions for the client with the help of Oracles, analyzes potential contractors and, if they meet the predetermined set of reliability criteria, proceeds to purchase the services that the client requires. 

The benefits for the Trustees powered by the ET Protocol:
1.      Safety of assets
Assets are protected from all legal claims and are impossible to withdraw without the whole dApp network agreeing to the solution.
2.      Earning more on managing assets through tokenization
Crypto assets can be distributed among a variety of asset classes via tokenized ETFs, equities, FI, REIT, etc. to provide reasonable risk/returns ratio.
3.      Smarter decision making
The ET-powered trustees can Integrate expert networks and AI to solve any fiduciary purpose of the client.
4.      Faster operations
Decisions can be made remotely and are only limited by the speed of the blockchains used. 
5.      Perspective for new markets & services
Trustees can scale their services onto new markets of crypto enthusiasts, the low/mid income and developing markets, or solve a wider range of purposes for their current target audience.
6.      The protocol is flexible & Modular
If needed, trustees may integrate only what their company needs, be it cryptocurrency payment gates or the full decision making process. The protocol provides varying levels of trust structure, privacy, and voting rights highly configurable by the dApp founders.


Token Sale & Major Milestones
To set the tokenomics of the protocol ecosystem in motion, we are raising funds through a token sale, starting on March 22nd. Funds from the Token Sale will be used for:
·        building a protocol with an API that will support an autonomous, intelligent marketplace connecting trustees, asset managers, service providers, and potential customers that aspire to fulfill long-term purposes through decentralized applications (dApps);
·        refining and auditing the smart contracts that will provide asset transfer and trust-like enforcement of purpose execution;
·        creating a toolkit for deploying Hyperledger-based private nodes that store customers’ documents, data, trust purposes, and legal agreements;
·        deploying experimental smart contracts for the prototype and implementing prototype-token circulation;
·        finalizing, packaging and distributing the codebase for the private nodes and dApps
·        assisting early adopters in the development of dApps on the Protocol
·        promotion, sales, and marketing among banks and funds; further organic development of business models on the ET Protocol


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